Brihad-Bharata
Navanītakaṁ or the so-called Bower Manuscript contains a detailed exposition of garlic as a dietary item and as medicine. After its discovery, the Western medical community appropriated this information into its own research.
The Bower Manuscript
The decipherment of the Bower Manuscript led to a spurt of excavations in East Turkistan and paved the way to the discovery of the Kuqa and Kizil Caves in China.
Brihad-Bharata
At Kucha, now in Xinjiang, Colonel Hamilton Bower buys an ancient Sanskrit Manuscript from a Turkic Muslim treasure-hunter for a paltry sum and then brings it back to India.
Hair-Dyes in Ancient India
An essay containing detailed information about the recipes and the procedure for preparing hair-dyes in ancient India.